Walk In the Rain

Began a gloomy, rainy morning with breakfast and the Shirt Tales. "Digger's Three Wishes" has him dreaming that his new lamp can produce a genie who grants him all the wealth he wants. He, Tyg, and Bogey are delighted, but Pammy and Kip think there's something up with these sudden riches. Turns out they're right when the genie swipes the money and the girls. Digger has even more trouble when he goes out of town and "Digger's Double," a rat who has been stealing cheese, impersonates him. The others figure it out when the rat is a little to eager to go out on assignment with Tyg and Bogey.

Switched to the Bowery Boys while working on yesterday's blog entry. Slip (Leo Gorcey) is In Fast Company when Father Donovan (Charles D. Brown) guilt trips him into helping an independent cab company after its owner is run off the road by Steve Trent (Douglas Fowley) of Red Circle Cab. Slip would mind helping less if it didn't mean he constantly has to break dates with his girl Mabel (Judy Clark) or explain what's going on to her uncle Louie (Bernard Gorcey) who owns the ice cream shop where they all congregate. When his friend Chuck (David Gorcey) is hurt by Trent and his goons while on duty, Slip and the others take it on themselves to tell the company's owner Mr. McCormick (Paul Harvey) what's going on.

By quarter of 2, I was bored and tired of sitting inside, and the showers were slowing down. They weren't slow enough for me to walk around in Cherry Hill like I originally planned, but I could run a few errands in Oaklyn. I grabbed my umbrella and headed out for a walk...then went right back inside and got my raincoat when I realized how cold it was! It wasn't even in the 70's. I think it might have been mid-60's. No wonder it felt so nice in my rooms.

My first stop was Family Dollar. I think they might be in the middle of remodeling. The baby items were all in bins instead of shelves. Good. That place is a mess. It could stand with a redo. I picked up trash bags and more of the cheap Pure Kick hydrate mix packs (in Arctic Wave this time), then moved on.

Since it's the closest restaurant that was actually open on a Tuesday, I went to Jalapeno's Mexican Bar and Grill for lunch. Needless to say, they were dead quiet at 2:30. The only other people there were two women chatting in a booth. I had delicious, full, and messy fish tacos and watched the Poland Vs. Uzbekistan World Cup soccer game on their TV in peace. (Later research revealed that Poland won, 5-0.)

I wanted to treat myself to WaWa in honor of the end of the school year yesterday, but I took Uber to and from the school and didn't want to run into storms afterwards. I ended up with a soft pretzel and a tasty Raspberry Chip Smoothie made with real raspberry puree. Watched cats play with volunteers at the Calico Cat Cafe a block down as I passed by them.

Took out the trash and brought it down to the curb when I got home, then went straight into bed for a nap. I was so tired. I stayed up too early Sunday night and couldn't sleep the next morning, and then there was all the craziness at Thomas Sharp. I went down at quarter of 4, got up at 6, and was still tired.

Put on Buzzr after I got up...only to find something called Buzzr's Top 10 instead of Match Game. This seems to be a special featuring big moments from the shows Freemantle owns that has shown up randomly all month. Incidentally, #2 is the introduction of Plinko on The Price Is Right. The top great moment is so infamous, a movie was released about it last year, Michael Larson amassing over $100,000 on Press Your Luck.

Watched Match Game '75 while I ate dinner after that finally started. Bert Convy, Mary Ann Mobley, and Betty White returned for the last episodes taped in 1974. Bert was amused by a question that asked what he did with the ladies, while everyone teased Brett over another question that joked about her wigs.

(Oh, and Buzzr has two big announcements for next month. First of all, their next marathon will be "Buzzr Goes Global," featuring two Freemantle shows from England and Family Feud Canada. Their other new show, Family Feud Moments, is less welcome. This just looks like it's "best segments from the current Steve Harvey Feud." It's probably in honor of Feud's 50th anniversary this year, but while I have no problems with Steve Harvey or his show, it doesn't really fit on Buzzr.) 

Moved to YouTube after Match Game ended. Did two Hungarian Folk Tales first. "The Giant Beanstalk" is "Jack and the Beanstalk" with the Giant playing a hurdy-gurdy instead of a singing harp. The mother also doesn't throw the beans out the window. Jack just plants them. "The Princess Three Pigs and Three Birthmarks" gets a little ribald when a young pig herder who can make his porcine charges dance agrees to let the Princess have them, if she'll lift her skirt for him. Turns out he has his reasons for this when the king announces that the man who marries her daughter will be the one who knows where her birthmarks are.

Finished the night with more of The Swamp Fox. Marion and his men have been wrecking havoc on the road, including capturing Mary Videux's father and sending him to prison. Colonel Horry's "Redcoat Strategy" is to have two of his men infiltrate Marion's group and learn the location of his hideout. Marion, as usual, is two steps ahead of them, including rescuing Mary, her maid Delia (Louise Beavers), and his friend Oscar (Smoki Whitfield).